Digitalization: Opportunity and Challenge for the Business and Information Systems Engineering Community
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Q2. What is the key requirement for a modern IT function in the digital age?
To meet the challenges of digitization, the IT function must undergo a change that comprises new modes of internal organization as well as new forms of collaboration and alignment with business departments.
Q3. What did the second wave of digitalization bring to the BISE community?
The second wave gave birth to the Internet as global communication infrastructure, resulting in changes to the firm’s value creation logic and new types of businesses, such as Prof.
Q4. What is the importance of digital transformation in business?
In business, digital transformation has particular importance, since it requires and enables companies to transact in changing markets.
Q5. What is the main challenge for companies?
• IT architecture transformation Making the existing IT architecture ready for the challenges of a customer-driven and user-driven IT remains a major challenge for many companies (e.g. in the financial service sector).
Q6. What are the three key fields of action for companies that seek to succeed in the changing competitive environment?
Companies that seek to succeed in the changing competitive environment that results from this development must unfold the potentials of digital technologies, rethink their business models for the digital age, and transform.
Q7. Why does the current wave of digitalization increase the importance of IT?
Owing to its inherent technology focus, the current wave of digitalization has increased the importance of IT and heightened the demands on corporate IT functions.
Q8. What is the potential of IT/IS to increase effectiveness in businesses?
Beyond this, the potential of IT/IS to increase effectiveness in businesses by driving vertical data integration as well as improving communication and collaboration by following a people-centric integration approach has been recognized.
Q9. What are the 10 areas that are subject to this transformation when companies seek to go digital?
In their study on digital excellence (Böhmann et al. 2015), the authors identified 10 key areas that are subject to this substantive transformation when companies seek to go digital:• Digital leadership and digital empowerment Employees, management, and top management must updatetheir digital skills sets so as to be able to contribute to digital innovation and transformation.
Q10. What are the main requirements for a modern IT function in the digital age?
besides ensuring regular IT operations, IT functions are increasingly asked to proactively identify technological innovations, to rapidly transfer them into marketable solutions, and to directly contribute to the company’s overall success.